by Someone That Cares

Created on: March 10, 2007   Last Updated: April 18, 2007

Here in America it is impossible to do anything without hearing something about a new weight loss technique or fad diet. We are obsessed about food and our weight. In light of this, it would seem that the majority of us would be lean, fit and healthy. It just doesn't make sense, therefore, that we are the fattest nation in the world.

Even our most coveted fast food chains have added "healthy" food items to their menu and some cities have decided to ban trans fats. Does anyone out there honestly believe this is going to help? If people truly wanted to eat healthy they would not be going to McDonald's in the first place. People are going to eat what they want to eat. My prediction is this: despite all of the changes the food industry is making America is going to continue to be fat. Perhaps this is harsh and pessimistic. Perhaps, but probably not.

We live in a nation where we allow our children to develop horrendous eating habits as children. As they start to develop weight problems, we stand by and watch because God forbid we say something and hurt their self-esteem. Chances are, they did not learn these eating habits on their own. If you make the children stop eating all the fried foods, sugar and fats then you might have to do the same. And we all know that Americans do not have the will power to resist. What a joke! The bottom line is that we live in a country where we have all learned to want something for nothing. We want to be thin but don't want to put in the work that it involves. We want a magic pill or some other quick fix.

Let me point out that I am someone that used to have a weight problem-I lost a significant amount of weight seven years ago and have kept it off. People that new me before always seem to be a bit disappointed that I have not regained all that weight. People that know me now and find out seem are first amazed because they cannot imagine my petite frame with sixty extra pounds and then want to know how I did it and if it was difficult. In the last seven years I have talked to probably at least a hundred people who want to know how I did it and ask me for advice. I have gladly offered it because I think anyone can do it. Out of all of those people, none of them have followed my advice. Some of them have lost weight using a fad diet instead and then quickly regain it again with no understanding how it happened. How many times do people have to say it-Diets don't work!

I do not have any great secrets to weight loss. Seven years ago when

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